HEY! ~ Where's all my Tomatos?? ... {bURRp}

[shais_mom]

Here's one of a thousand web pages on "Blossom End Rot".
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/3000/3117.html

The other 999 pages all give Home Remedies to fix it.
And there's dozens of "commercial (high-priced) remedies" available.
Donny (my Mater Pharm inna Buckit constructor), suggested adding TUMS
(the antacid) 'cause he read it somewhere.
Consistant and steady watering is very important ... I let last year's Mater
Tree get too dry a few days - that disturbs the calcium flow in the plant.

This year the Buckit got pre-loaded with extra LIME to increase the
calcium reserve available to the fruit.
SO FAR - NO "black bottomed 'Maters"!

/s/ Pharmer Phred

or you can just use the calcium supplement you take.
Dissolve a couple in a bucket and pour over your plants.

[Catty1]

(I think Dorothy39 posted that poet's name (Riley) because how he writes some of his stuff and how Phred often writes are similar...except Riley seemed to have needed his writing to rhyme. Kinda interferes with the natural flow).

[Cinder & Smoke]

or you can just use the calcium supplement you take.
Dissolve a couple in a bucket and pour over your plants.

You say that like you think I know which one is "THE Calcium Supplement"
that I take. DUHHHH ... What's it called other than "Calcium Supplement"?

[shais_mom]

You say that like you think I know which one is "THE Calcium Supplement"
that I take. DUHHHH ... What's it called other than "Calcium Supplement"?

Os Cal
Citracal
or low and behold the hardest name to remember
oh Gosh you can buy a huge jar of it from Walmart
Lemme Think.
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oh Yea.
CALCIUM with Vit D.
never fails!

[Sevaede]

hehehe! Reminds me of RB Soni. He used to eat lettuce and peas and such! He would even eat bread as long as it had some sort of sauce or jelly or spread on it.